[Data-modeling] Olympics domain for review

[Gordon Mackenzie]

Oathtaker is the athlete chosen (usually one of the notable athletes of the host country) to take the Olympic Oath during the open ceremony.

Olympic flag-bearers: The notable host-country athletes (past-present) who carry the flag out to the flagpole during the opening ceremony

Did I forget the Olympic Torch Lighter?

Olympic Host Organization is the organization that actually wins the bid, manages the event, does the fund raising. So for 1984 the winning bid organization was the Los Angeles Olympic Committee, Chief Executive Officer Peter Ueberroth and Chief Operating Officer Harry Usher

(supposedly, from wikipedia: "...were able to produce a profit of over $200 million. The 1984 Games were the second to make a profit, after only the 1932 Summer Olympics (also in Los Angeles).") That of course leads to Olympic Games Budget (with Profit/Loss...Probably well hidden data that!)

Olympic Venue-We could have venues built for the games. Civic improvements/structures/transportation systems built for games.

Olympic Award Rescinded (with reason) for bad athletes who got caught using banned substances or commit an infraction discovered post-event. One tragic case was Jim Thorpe:

"James Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk) from Oklahoma: Wa-Tho-Huk) (May 28, 1888 – March 28, 1953[1]) was an American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon, played American football collegiately and professionally, and also played professional baseball and basketball. He subsequently lost his Olympic titles when it was found he was paid for playing two seasons of minor league baseball before competing in the games (thus violating the amateur status rules). In 1978, Thorpe was given his own national holiday, which is still celebrated on May 28.

Thorpe was of mixed Native American and white ancestry. He was raised as a Sac and Fox, and named Wa-Tho-Huk, roughly translated as "Bright Path". He struggled with racism throughout much of his life and his accomplishments were publicized with headlines describing him as a "Redskin" and "Indian athlete". He also played on several All-American Indian teams throughout his career and barnstormed as a professional basketball player with a team composed entirely of Native Americans.

Thorpe was named the greatest athlete of the first half of the twentieth century by the Associated Press (AP) in 1950, and ranked third on the AP list of athletes of the century in 1999. After his professional sports career ended, Thorpe lived in abject poverty. He worked several odd jobs, struggled with alcoholism, and lived out the last years of his life in failing health. In 1983, thirty years after his death, his medals were restored." 

> Olympic Ceremony stuff: Oly President, Notable Attendees, Performers,
> opening/closing, theme, designer, production staff/company)

Oooh, that's good and complicated, isn't it?

> Olympic Torch Bearers? (on the route from Greece to Host Site) (Date
> and location)
> Olympic Torch Route? (Could be tricky building a path with geolocation
> data, city to city would be easiest)

Also complicated!

> Olympic Oath Taker?

I don't even know what this means.

> Olympic Organizations? (staff, CEO)

Do you mean like a country's Olympic committee, or are we talking about the international olympics committee, or what?

> Olympic Host City? (Year)

As Olympic Games currently inherits from "Event" it picks up "Location" but this is one of those cases where the Event's Location property is annoyingly general and better handled by a more specific expected type.  Will fix.

> Olympic Bid City? (Year, bid round eliminated)

Interesting and juicy.

> Olympic Mascot?

Yes!

K.

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